Police are investigating an incident where a 35-year-old woman was found murdered in her house following a domestic dispute in a village in Kehancha, Kuria, Migori County.
Police said Lucy Mogesi Nokwe died after an assault by her husband on Thursday, November 20, in Kurutyange village.
The husband had arrived home late and demanded money from her wife that he claimed she got from mining businesses.
She told him she did not have the money, prompting a physical fight where the woman was stabbed and kicked by the man.
Witnesses said the man also hit her with a stone in the head before he escaped the home. The woman was discovered dead hours later.
Police arrived at the scene and picked up the body to take it to the mortuary pending an autopsy and other investigations.
Police said on Friday they were hunting for the man behind the incident. Elsewhere in Voi, Taita Taveta County, a father was arrested after he fatally assaulted his 11-year-old son.
The father had used a belt to “discipline” his son at the local railway station staff quarters when the incident turned tragic.
The boy fell unconscious, forcing the father to rush him to the hospital.
It was at the hospital he was informed the boy had died. Police were called to the hospital and processed the scene before moving the body to the mortuary.
Police also visited the home where the beating
happened and recovered a belt that was said to have been used in the murder.
Police said they are investigating murder in the
incident.
Such incidents have happened at homes amid calls on families to be cautious as they end up facing serious charges including murder.
Police say they have increasingly been attending to such incidents in the country.
And a woman collapsed and died in their house in Shauri Moyo’s Mombasa Ndogo informal settlement, Nairobi.
The body of Michelle Bernard, 27 was found in her house hours after she had complained she was feeling unwell on Thursday afternoon.
The cause of the death was not known. police
said the body was moved to the mortuary pending an autopsy and other
investigations.
In Mathare slums, the body of a man believed to be disabled was found drowned on a local river.
The man had an amputated leg when the body was discovered on Thursday afternoon, police said.
The body was removed and taken to the mortuary pending identification and autopsy.
The man is suspected to have died elsewhere by probably drowning before he was swept to the scene in Mathare 3A.
Police appealed to anyone whose relative is
missing and fits the descriptions to report to the mortuary to help in
identification and ongoing probe.
